Wayne LaPierre

Wayne LaPierre (8 November 1949-) was CEO and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association from 1991, succeeding J. Warren Cassidy.

Biography
Wayne LaPierre was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949, and he was raised in Roanoke, Virginia from the age of 5. He became a government lobbyist and activist, and he became CEO and Executive Vice President of the NRA in 1991, having joined the organization in 1977 while serving as an aide to Democratic congressman A. Victor Thomas. He called for the presence of armed guards at schools and believed that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." He opposed universal background checks (believing that it would lead to a universal registry), any ban on assault weapons, and gun control in general, and he persuaded President Donald Trump to not pursue any gun reform after the 2018 Parkland high school massacre.